The Federal Aviation Administration is renewing restrictions on flights in the Washington area nearly one year after a mid-air collision between a US Army helicopter and a passenger jet that killed 67 people.
The move is a “key step” to “ensure an accident like this never happens again,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said in a statement. Restrictions implemented last year were set to lapse, according to the Department of Transportation.
New restrictions would ban all but “essential” flights by “helicopters and powered-lift operating in the vertical-lift flight mode” in airspace over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...